* Astronomy

The Earthquake Risk and Europe

How strong can earthquakes in Germany be? Where in Europa are the earthquake activities concentrated? These questions are the basis for risk assessments and become relevant when it comes to the safety of buildings or the generation of tsunami. For the first time, scientists of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have succeeded in setting up a harmonised catalogue of earthquakes for Europe and the Mediterranean for the last thousand years. This catalogue consists of about 45000 earthquakes, reported in the latest issue of the "Journal of Seismology".
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